(Ebook) Immaterial Culture Literature Drama and the American Radio Play 1929 1954 1st Edition by Harry Heuser ISBN 3034309775 9783034309776

(Ebook) Immaterial Culture Literature Drama and the American Radio Play 1929 1954 1st Edition by Harry Heuser ISBN 3034309775 9783034309776

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ISBN 10: 3034309775

ISBN 13: 9783034309776 

Author: Harry Heuser

Immaterial Culture engages with texts that are now largely unread and dismissed as trivial or dubious: the vast body of plays – thrillers, narrative poetry, comedy sketches, documentaries and adaptations of literature and drama – that aired on American network radio during the medium’s so-called golden age. For a quarter century, from the stock market crash of 1929 to the introduction of the TV dinner in 1954, radio plays enjoyed an exposure unrivalled by stage, film, television and print media. As well as entertaining audiences numbering in the tens of millions for a single broadcast, these scripted performances – many of which were penned by noted novelists, poets and dramatists – played important and often conflicting roles in advertising, government propaganda and education. Reading these fugitive and often self-conscious texts in the context in which they were created and presented, the author considers what their neglect might tell us about ourselves, our visual bias and our attitudes toward commercial art and propaganda. The study’s ample scope, its interdisciplinary approach and its insistence on the primacy of the texts under discussion serve to regenerate the discourse about cultural products that challenge the way we classify art and marginalise the unclassifiable.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1 The “time between commercials”: Radio Culture and Criticism
Chapter 2 “Barbarians ready! Flash the orchestra!”: Stage and Studio
Chapter 3 “Yeah, hit’s jist like a library”: Broadcasting and Print
Chapter 4 “Rise up and speak, you voices!”: Medium and Zeitgeist
Chapter 5 “It’s going to hurt, but think of this”: Service and Self-Effacement
Chapter 6 “Until I know the thing I want to know”: Puzzles and Propaganda
Chapter 7 “If I’m alone one more second, I’ll go mad”: Dialogue and Interiority
Chapter 8 “This is Norman Corwin”: Voice and Vocabulary
Chapter 9 “Hawkers of feces? Costermongers of shit?”: Exits and Recantations

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